Gavin Cassar - Faculty Profile | INSEAD

Gavin Cassar

Accounting and Control

Gavin Cassar

Professor of Accounting and Control

Contact

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +33 1 60 72 92 08
Campus: Singapore

Research Areas

Forecasting and Business Planning, Risk Management and Internal Controls, Performance Measurement and Incentives, Corporate Governance

Teaching Areas

Corporate Governance, Managerial Accounting, Financial Acumen, Strategic Decision Making, Performance Measurement and Evaluation, Management Control

Biography

Gavin Cassar is a Professor of Accounting and Control at INSEAD. Before joining INSEAD he was a member of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania faculty. Gavin received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley and his Bachelor of Commerce (with First Class Honours) from the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Professor Cassar's research is centered on the role of information, especially financial, in settings of high uncertainty and opacity. In particular, he explores how entrepreneurs and hedge fund managers use information for their decision making needs and contracting with investors. His research has been published in top-tier accounting, finance, management, and entrepreneurship academic journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Strategic Management Journal and Journal of Business Venturing. He has served as editor of the Journal of Business Venturing and Management Science and on the editorial boards of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management and Journal of Management Accounting Research.

Professor Cassar teaches management accounting and corporate governance concepts across several programmes and is the recipient of teaching awards including The David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching, which is the most prestigious teaching award at Wharton and INSEAD’s Deans’ Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching on several occasions.

Publications

Cassar G., Ko T. (Forthcoming). Peer Effects in Subjective Performance Evaluation. Contemporary Accounting Research

Cassar G., Gerakos J., Green J., Hand J., Neal M. (2018). Hedge Fund Voluntary Disclosure. The Accounting Review, 93(2)

Cassar G., Gerakos J. (2017). Do Risk Management Practices Work? Evidence from Hedge Funds. Review of Accounting Studies, 22(3)

Cassar G., Ittner C., Cavalluzzo K. (2015). Alternative Information Sources and Information Asymmetry Reduction: Evidence from Small Business Debt. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 59(2-3)

Cassar G. (2014). Industry and Startup Experience on Entrepreneur Forecast Performance in New Firms. Journal of Business Venturing, 29(1)

Cassar G., Gerakos J. (2011). Hedge Funds: Pricing Controls and the Smoothing of Self-reported Returns. Review of Financial Studies, 24(5)

Cassar G. (2011). Discussion of The Value of Financial Statement Verification in Debt Financing: Evidence from Private U.S. Firms. Journal of Accounting Research, 49(2)

Cassar G., Gerakos J. (2010). Determinants of Hedge Fund Internal Controls and Fees. The Accounting Review, 85(6)

Cassar G. (2010). Are Individuals Entering Self-employment overly Optimistic? An Empirical Test of Plans and Projections on Nascent Entrepreneur Expectations. Strategic Management Journal, 31(8)

Cassar G., Craig J. (2009). An Investigation of Hindsight Bias in Nascent Venture Activity. Journal of Business Venturing, 24(2)

Cassar G., Ittner C. (2009). Initial Retention of External Accountants in Start-up Ventures. European Accounting Review, 18(2)

Cassar G., Friedman H. (2009). Does Self-Efficacy Affect Entrepreneurial Investment?. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 3(3)

Cassar G. (2009). Financial Statement and Projection Preparation in Start-up Ventures. The Accounting Review, 84(1)

Cassar G., Gibson B. (2008). Budgets, Internal Reports, and Manager Forecast Accuracy. Contemporary Accounting Research, 25(3)

Cassar G., Gibson B. (2007). Forecast Rationality in Small Firms. Journal of Small Business Management, 45(3)

Cassar G. (2007). Money, Money, Money? A Longitudinal Investigation of Entrepreneur Career Reasons, Growth Preferences, and Achieved Growth. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 19(1)

Cassar G. (2006). Entrepreneur Opportunity Costs and Intended Venture Growth. Journal of Business Venturing, 21(5)

Cassar G., Craig J., Moores K. (2006). A 10-Year Longitudinal Investigation of Strategy, Systems, and Environment on Innovation in Family Firms. Family Business Review, 19(1)

Gibson B., Cassar G. (2005). Longitudinal Analysis of Relationships between Planning and Performance in Small Firms. Small Business Economics, 25(3)

Cassar G. (2004). The Financing of Business Start-ups. Journal of Business Venturing, 19(2)

Cassar G., Holmes S. (2003). Capital Structure and Financing of SMEs: Australian Evidence. Accounting and Finance, 43(2)

Gibson B., Cassar G. (2002). Planning Behavior Variables in Small Firms. Journal of Small Business Management, 40(3)

Cassar G. (2001). Self-serving Behaviour and the Voluntary Disclosure of Capital Market Performance. Accounting Research Journal, 14(2)

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